Wednesday, December 24, 2008

En La Serena

So I´ve met up with Holly and we've made our way 500 km north of Santiago to a place called La Serena. Its a funky beach town that has climbing south of town. Sweet!! We've booked into an awesome hostal for about $16/day each. Its clean, pleasent and has a really laid back atmosphere.

Things in the town are at a frenzied pace as everyone gears up for Christmas. The grocery store was a full contact event that involved evasive manouvers to get out alile. Meanwhile the streets are packed with market stalls selling everything.

Holly and I have spent much of ou time people watching in plazas. Its a hillarous activity. Where you are preached to by fire and brimstone evangelists while voyerist-tically watching couples and doing some good ole fashioned mullet spotting.

Apparently, the strong hold of the mullet is Chile. The most amazing thing we've discovered is the many differnt kinds of mullets that occur in the wild. We're working up a taxonmy over the course of the trip. Perhaps we can sell it to pay for the expenses...

In between mullet spotting and full contact grocery trips, we're also hunting for an awesome bouldering area that should be near here. Some 200+ boulder to go fall off. We're pretty stoked!

As far as Christmas goes it looks like we'll have a quiet Christams. Tonight at the hostel, there's an all you can eat Navidad bar-b-q that should be good fun. And Holly plans to attend Midnight Mass at one of the 29 churches here. Me? - I'm going to go hole up in a plaza with a cup of coffee or a bottle of wine.

I don't think Santa's going to find me this year down here. But... I'm okay with that, the wine is good, the weather is awesome and the most difficult decision I have to make is where to have afternoon coffee.


Have a Merry Christmas all!!!


Feliz Navidad

Ryan

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